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Journal of the House of Commons
… to the House a Bill for the importing several Goods and Merchandizes, laden at Jamaica on board the Ship called … the Elizabeth Flyboat, paying such Customs as shall be due and payable for the same: And the same was received. The Bill was read the First time. …
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… Prayers. Duty on Glass. A PETITION of several Persons, for and on behalf of themselves, and the rest of the many poor labouring Artificers in the Glass Manufacture, in and about the City of London, was presented to the House, and …
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… Brigadier Trelawney, was presented to the House, and read; setting forth, That the Petitioner is of Scotch Parents, but born in France, and has been in the Service of this Kingdom 26 Years; having … nothing but his said Employment for his Subsistence: And praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for …
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… Privilege. A PETITION of Dame Sarah Bassett, Widow and Relict of Sir William Basset Knight, deceased, was presented to the House. And the same relating to Sir Edward Hungerford, a Member of … to get further Intelligence; and, on the 29th, he saw Four Lights, it being thick and foggy; they were near them, and …
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… Duties on Leather. APETITION of the Glovers, Skinners, and others concerned in the Manufacturing of Alum-Leather, in and about the City of Exon, was presented to the House, and read; setting forth, That the late Duty laid upon all …
Journal of the House of Commons
… Order, presented to the House a Bill for the encouraging and improving the Trade to Russia: And the same was received. The Bill was read the First time. … of the Mayor, Bailiffs, Aldermen, Common Council-men, and also of the Merchants, and other principal Inhabitants, …
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… of his Majesty's Ship the London, on the behalf of himself and Ship's Company, was presented to the House, and read; setting forth, That, in June 1697, the Petitioner … took Three Ships, as Prize; which were condemned, and sold, by the Commissioners of Prizes: That the Goods on …
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… Peter Albert, Lewis Costard, Peter Canche, Henry Albert, and John Jaumard, took the Oaths appointed, in order to their Naturalization. Ayre and Calder Navigation. A Petition of the Wardens and Freemen of the Company of Weavers, within the Borough of …
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… Persons to attend Committee. Ordered, That if Dr. Fryer and Sir Charles Smith do not appear, To-morrow, before the … convict, that then the Serjeant at Arms shall go for them, and apprehend them as Delinquents. Plymouth Church. Mr. Rowse … in Plymouth; with the Amendments: The which Amendments and Additions were twice read; and, upon the Question, the …
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… Bailing Prisoners. THE humble Petition of Simon Carrell and Thomas Broccas, in Newgate, Prisoners taken at Yarmouth: … be preserved and kept from Spoil: And that the Chapel, and Windows thereof, be not defaced by any but those that are … be preserved and kept from Spoil: And that the Chapel, and Windows thereof, be not defaced by any but by those that are …